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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGI_thomas-fork_Montpelier-ID.html
A bad ford gave trouble to wagon trains crossing this stream on the trail to California and Oregon in 1849.
In that year, gold-seeking 49'ers developed a shortcut that crossed here. Then emigrants built two bridges here in 1850. But an enterpr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGH_smiths-trading-post_Montpelier-ID.html
In 1848, Pegleg Smith established a trading post on the Oregon Trail at Big Timber somewhere near here on the river.
Some travelers called it "Fort Smith", though it had only four log cabins and some Indian lodges. Packing a plow and tools fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGG_bank-robbers_Montpelier-ID.html
On Aug. 13, 1896, Butch Cassidy and his infamous Wild Bunch of gunmen invaded Montpelier's bank and scooped up more than $16,500 in gold, silver and currency.
Leaving a surprised cashier and his terrified customers, they calmly rode away. A de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGF_big-hill_Montpelier-ID.html
On their way west to Oregon and California, emigrant wagons often crossed high ridges in order to avoid gullies and canyons.
When he came here in 1843, Theodore Talbot noted that he "had to cross a very high hill, which is said to be the gre…